Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
ISBN: 9780812291889
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; History;

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.


Katherine Eggert is Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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